Hi
I was wondering if anyone started ziprasidone and found themselves having intense OCD and having manias? I just came off risperidone 3mg twice a day… had to my prolactin levels were sky high… could it be hormone related? My neurologist wrote a letter trying to urgently get me to see a psychiatrist…
Anyone had anything remotely like this?
I was on Geodon for 3 years. Never had too bad of side effects like you’re describing
Yeah I had mania on ziprasidone. I’ve heard other people mention this anecdotally but it shouldn’t causing this tbh so idk
If you count Akathisia as mania, then I had one brief Akathisia episode but only lasted several hours. Appears my body is used to Geodon now. It works well with no more bad side effects. Been on it about a month now.
Akathisia (assuming that’s what it was) made me agitated, hyperkinetic, and couldn’t focus. Made me want to do pushups or move around a lot.
“In the former Soviet Union, akathisia-inducing drugs were allegedly used as a form of torture. Haloperidol, an antipsychotic medication, was used to induce intense restlessness and Parkinson’s-type symptoms in prisoners.”
Yikes!
It’s not a problem I’m aware of. Just hope you’ll never ever have to.go.off of it because then you are.in really very big.troubles.
Describe the intense OCD you’re having. I’m curious because I’m on Ziprasidone too.
I have been taking Geodon since 2009. Never had mania. That’s one thing I would like to have but most of my side effects are from Geodon.
Tremors, fainting, to name a couple. Had to quit it once cold turkey and figured out that was also the cause of my ED. Not sure if you are a guy or not. That was the only good thing that came from that experience. I thought it was the Latuda.
I tried coming off it many times but I am not on the max dose anymore.
Good luck with it.
I have had many shrinks. A lot of them have been concerned about my heart. I had one that made me get an EKG every six months.
Basically everything I do has its own routine. Certain steps in a particular order. And I have to do it the same every time. Then bigger picture a whole day routine filled with the little routines. Then there’s compulsive pulling skin off looking for hairs to pull out. And recently I’ve started having compulsive thought patterns…
I’ve been a bit compulsive for longer than I’ve been on ziprasidone it just seems to have made it worse tho…
With that name probably not a guy. Sorry about that. I need to read better.
I don’t have any OCD traits. Nothing like that.
I have obsessive thoughts that I’m wondering if they’re from Ziprasidone. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve been on Ziprasidone for well over a decade. It does weaken me a little, but it is worth it to have something that controls my symptoms without making me brain dead. Life is so much better on Ziprasidone than it was on Haldol. They use Haldol to torture mental patients in Russia. It sucks.
I like to hear you say that @crimby I have always wanted to try Haldol.
The fourth time I was hospitalized I quit taking my meds. I made it 5 days. Got psychotic as hell and suicidal and ended up in the ward. They wouldn’t put me in the military hospital I had to go to the real looney bin with all the crazy’s. They gave me a shot of haldol and a shot of Ativan and a couple days later I felt normal again but I still had a lot of memory loss from quitting my meds. It was weird but I had a personality again for a few days.
Always wondered if it was the Haldol. I am too scared to experiment with meds though much.
I’m glad the Haldol worked for you, but if they try to put me on it again I am going to run!
Lol. We are all different.
The problem was I couldn’t remember anything. I talked a lot though after that shot whee usually I said nothing. I remember talking to my boss once there though and he said I like this guys I don’t hear that often anymore.
I tried to order my records from that hospital stat because I have no idea what I told the doctors. Just that I thought I had ended the world.
They wrote me back and said my health records were federally protected and I couldn’t get a copy
The military hospital wouldn’t give me any psych notes either. My wife tried to get them. They only said I had an appointment with a psychiatrist. The medical notes were all excluded.
The patient is allowed access to their own medical records/notes. I’m just going to say it: you are a liar. Don’t even bother. I’m blocking you.
You’re not good at pretending to be someone else. You’re a novice. I’ve had people plotting against me for years. Believe me, you are a novice. You don’t put enough research into it when you pretend to be someone else, when you try to create a false character.
Well I quit ziprasidone almost 4 month ago. I told everyone what I ment. That cost me some relationships. So well I.got.uppered to 750 mg.seroquel and now finally.feel.fine. I just want to excusce my somewhat provoking way of writing. When ever I had compulsions it was allwsys because.I did’nt…tske my mefs
I’ve been on ziprasidone for at least a year now. I’m on 180mg a day. Almost maxed out. But I’ve had the least amount of side effects on it. I’ve even missed a day here and there. My withdrawal symptoms are from my effexor though. I’m on a total of 4 meds with 1 prn.
I currently take Ziprasidone - 80 mg twice daily. I have no side effects from it, and i’ve been taking it since 2018.
I have Parkinsonism from Geodon. I take Cogentin for it otherwise I shake and can’t walk straight. I also have severe OCD but I’m not sure if it’s Geodon causing it.
Why would I be pretending? I go to the VA now and all my records are online. I can see them all and even print them out if I want to. I just can’t get them from when I was a Marine. I was using army medicine at the time. They entered all the psych notes in a system called AHLTA and i couldn’t access that.
I had three volumes of medical records ther gave me when I retired. Everyone tells you to make a copy of them. Mine didn’t say anything. Just page after page that said I had a shrink appointment. Just gave them to the VA. Unsure what they did with them.
I am sure my notes are still in that system. I have my med board and appeal narratives. If I wanted to really get the notes maybe I could. Not that worried about it.